2021-06-16 // day precision
Choosing along the best-value continuum
Posted by Dan Cary
Original source text
Is this a thing?
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Editorial interpretation
A sweating decision-maker faces buttons for Trade-Offs and LPTA. Replies add simplified acquisition procedures and sealed bidding to the joke. The displayed JPEG may be a later Facebook rendition; the 2021 post date does not establish an unchanged upload.
SOURCE DISCUSSION — transcribed original comments
2021-06-16 — Andy Knott:
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2021-06-16 — Filipp Dietrich Lassman:
SAP!!
2021-06-16 — Dan Cary — reply in Filipp Dietrich Lassman’s thread:
Filipp Dietrich Lassman I want this gif but with each girl being LPTA and Tradeoff and the guy it zooms in on is SAP. I wish I was better at gifs though.
2021-06-16 — Dan Cary — reply in Filipp Dietrich Lassman’s thread:
[Tenor “Beard Kiss” GIF embed; literal embed markup is preserved privately, animation bytes were not captured.]
2021-06-16 — Filipp Dietrich Lassman — reply in Filipp Dietrich Lassman’s thread:
Dan Cary that's awesome.
2021-06-18 — Stephanie Perrin Aiken:
Can lpta be best value?? I mean do I have to upgrade just because it is proposed?? Lol
2021-06-18 — Dan Cary — reply in Stephanie Perrin Aiken’s thread:
COs are given a wide latitude. Make the choices you can afford.
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Topics: Early Years, June 2021, source selection, LPTA, tradeoffs, FAR Part 15, sealed bidding